Culture, Language and Idiomaticity
Culture, Language and Idiomaticity

Summary/Abstract: The paper describes how conceptual blending (in other words conceptual integration) operates, and it provides insight into the cultural aspects of language use. It also focuses on four basic forms of this ment al operation: simplex, mirror, single-scope and double-scope. All are important cognitive operations, but especially double-scope integration is said to have played a crucial role in the development of human thinking. The study illustrates conceptual integration through examples of idiomatic blends and explains what differences and similarities can be observed between blending and other cognitive operations, such as metaphor and metonymy.

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